Jimmy Cleveland

James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.

Cleveland was signed by EmArcy Records in 1955. Cleveland was married to jazz vocalist Janet Thurlow. He died on August 23, 2008, in Lynwood, California, at the age of 82. He was buried beside his wife at Riverside National Cemetery.

As leader

 * Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (EmArcy, 1955)
 * Cleveland Style (EmArcy, 1957)
 * A Map of Jimmy Cleveland (Mercury, 1958)
 * Rhythm Crazy (EmArcy, 1959 [1964])

As sideman
with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley With Gene Ammons With Dorothy Ashby With Art Blakey With Brass Fever with James Brown With Ruth Brown With Kenny Burrell With Donald Byrd with Clifford Coulter With Hank Crawford With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Miles Davis With Teddy Edwards with Gil Evans With Art Farmer With Maynard Ferguson With Dizzy Gillespie With Benny Golson With Johnny Griffin with Gigi Gryce With Friedrich Gulda With Chico Hamilton With Milt Jackson with Antonio Carlos Jobim With J. J. Johnson With Quincy Jones With Sam Jones with Gene Krupa with Melba Liston With Mundell Lowe With Junior Mance With Gary McFarland With Carmen McRae With Charles Mingus With Blue Mitchell With the Modern Jazz Quartet With Thelonious Monk With Wes Montgomery With James Moody With Oliver Nelson With Phineas Newborn, Jr. With Joe Newman With Duke Pearson With Tony Perkins with Oscar Peterson with Oscar Pettiford With Specs Powell With Jerome Richardson With Sonny Rollins with Jimmy Rushing with Lalo Schifrin With Shirley Scott with Jimmy Smith With Sonny Stitt With Idrees Sulieman with Billy Taylor with Clark Terry with Lucky Thompson with Stanley Turrentine with Sarah Vaughan with Dinah Washington With Randy Weston With Gerald Wilson With Kai Winding With Phil Woods
 * Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (EmArcy, 1955)
 * Free Again (Prestige, 1971)
 * The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (Atlantic, 1965)
 * Art Blakey Big Band (Bethlehem, 1957)
 * Time Is Running Out (Impulse!, 1976)
 * Soul on Top (King/Verve, 1970)
 * Miss Rhythm (Atlantic, 1959)
 * Blues - The Common Ground (Verve, 1968)
 * Night Song (Verve, 1969)
 * Jazz Lab (Columbia, 1957) - co-led with Gigi Gryce
 * Modern Jazz Perspective (Columbia, 1957) - co-led with Gigi Gryce
 * I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Blue Note, 1965)
 * Do It Now! (Impulse!, 1971)
 * Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul (Atlantic, 1969)
 * Trane Whistle (Prestige, 1960)
 * Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1957)
 * Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958)
 * Mississippi Lad (Verve/Gitanes, 1991)
 * Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige, 1957)
 * The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)
 * Blues in Orbit (Enja, 1969–71)
 * The Art Farmer Septet (Prestige, 1953–54)
 * Brass Shout (United Artists, 1959)
 * The Aztec Suite (United Artists, 1959)
 * Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (Mercury, 1962)
 * Ridin' High (Enterprise, 1967)
 * Jazz Recital (Norgran, 1955)
 * Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
 * White Gardenia (Riverside, 1961)
 * Street Scenes (Vogue, 1953)
 * Orchestra and Quartet (Signal, 1955); reissued as Nica's Tempo (Savoy)
 * Friedrich Gulda at Birdland (RCA Victor, 1957)
 * A Man of Letters (Decca, 1957)
 * The Gamut (Solid State, 1968)
 * Plenty, Plenty Soul (Atlantic, 1957)
 * Big Bags (Riverside, 1962)
 * For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
 * Ray Brown / Milt Jackson with Ray Brown (Verve, 1965)
 * Memphis Jackson (Impulse!, 1969)
 * The Composer of "Desafinado", Plays (Verve, 1963)
 * Wave (CTI, 1967)
 * J.J.! (RCA Victor, 1964)
 * Jazz Abroad (Emarcy, 1955)
 * This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 * The Birth of a Band! (Mercury, 1959)
 * The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (Mercury, 1959)
 * I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)
 * Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1959-65 [1965])
 * Walking in Space (A&M, 1969)
 * Down Home (Riverside, 1962)
 * Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements (Verve, 1958)
 * Melba Liston and Her 'Bones (MetroJazz, 1958)
 * TV Action Jazz! (RCA Camden, 1959)
 * Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) (Charlie Parker, 1961)
 * The Soul of Hollywood (Jazzland, 1962)
 * Soft Samba (Verve, 1963)
 * Something to Swing About (Kapp, 1959)
 * The Complete Town Hall Concert (United Artists, 1962 [Blue Note, 1994])
 * Smooth as the Wind (Riverside, 1961)
 * Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1965)
 * Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 (France's Concert)
 * Movin' Wes (Verve, 1963)
 * Moody and the Brass Figures (Milestone, 1966)
 * Happenings with Hank Jones (Impulse!, 1966)
 * Encyclopedia of Jazz (Verve, 1966)
 * The Sound of Feeling (Verve, 1966)
 * The Spirit of '67 co-led with Pee Wee Russell (Impulse!, 1967)
 * Phineas Newborn, Jr. Plays Harold Arlen's Music from Jamaica (RCA Victor, 1957)
 * Salute to Satch (RCA Victor, 1956)
 * Now Hear This (Blue Note, 1968)
 * On a Rainy Afternoon (RCA Victor, 1958)
 * With Respect to Nat (Verve, 1965)
 * Basically Duke (Bethlehem, 1954)
 * The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
 * Movin' In (Roulette, 1957)
 * Midnight Oil (New Jazz, 1959)
 * Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (MetroJazz, 1958; reissued as Brass & Trio, Verve)
 * Five Feet of Soul (Roulette, 1963)
 * New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)
 * Once a Thief and Other Themes (Verve, 1965)
 * For Members Only (Impulse! 1963)
 * Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (Verve, 1962)
 * Any Number Can Win (Verve, 1963)
 * The Cat...The Incredible Jimmy Smith (Verve, 1964)
 * Christmas '64 (Verve, 1964)
 * Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo w/ Wes Montgomery (Verve, 1966)
 * Stay Loose (Verve, 1968)
 * Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (Roost, 1955)
 * Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Atlantic, 1962)
 * Broadway Soul (Colpix, 1965)
 * Roots (New Jazz, 1957) with the Prestige All Stars
 * My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957; reissued on Impulse!)
 * Kwamina (Mercury, 1961)
 * Clark Terry (EmArcy, 1955)
 * Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Vol. 2 (ABC-Paramount, 1956; reissued on Tricotism, Impulse)
 * Always Something There (Blue Note, 1968)
 * ¡Viva! Vaughan (Verve, 1958)
 * For Those In Love (Mercury, 1955)
 * The Swingin' Miss "D" (Verve, 1956)
 * Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
 * Highlife (Colpix, 1963)
 * Lomelin (Discovery, 1981)
 * Jessica (Trend, 1982)
 * The In Instrumentals (Verve, 1965)
 * Round Trip (Verve, 1969)